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Alfred's Serif Users' Forums → Posts by William
The thing is, if people buy Easter eggs now, will they need to buy replacements later?
Apparently some people buy boxes of chocolates early ready for Christmas then need to buy a replacement box because having them in the house they cannot resist the temptation to "just have one".
But recursively.
Tesco has some Easter eggs on a Clubcard price until 8 February 2022.
William
I have just logged onto the Tesco grocery site.
There is a feature on Easter eggs.
What?
Lent this year does not start until 2 March 2022.
William
Thank you.
Yes, I keep a daily food diary
For kilocalories I usually consume between 2000 and 2500 each day.
For sugars I keep within the recommended 90 grammes each day, often only having around 50 grammes.
I use an A5 size notebook delivered with the grocery by Tesco. I use one page each day. The notebooks are not expensive and I need a new one every few months.
As most things have a unique kilocalories number within the range of foods that I eat it is only for a few things that I need to write down what it is in words, I usually write just the number. Thus 358 kilocalories 0.2 grammes of sugar for the rice that I mentioned and 153 kilocalories and 19.0 grammes of sugar for the chocolate drink. I keep running totals throughout each day so as not to overdo the sugar intake.
I find keeping a food diary very useful, it may sound like a lot of work and inconvenience but for me it is just writing a few lines for each of my three main meals each day and a quick note if I have something extra between main meals.
William
Here is a really quick recipe, useful anytime but particularly useful if coming home on a cold day, or at work with just a microwave cooker available. Contains soya, is vegan, no gluten.
Heat a pack of white long grain microwaveable rice in a microwave cooker, 2 minutes typically. I use Tilda white Basmati, 250 grammes.
Empty the heated pack into a bowl or a pyrex jug.
Add 250 millilitres of Alpro chocolate drink. They are supplied in packs of 3 units each of 250 millilitres.
Eat and enjoy.
Going from cold and wanting something tasty and warm to eating in about 3 minutes if one has the ingredients ready for use.
Just over 500 kilocalories.
William
Some dreamy German instrumental music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZojLzy1y08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhygZSjTA9M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PglKPp5mRg
William
A rather fine video, an instrumental cover of a German pop song with what appears to be a dashboard camera recording of a journey on a road. Only 19 views so far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi2ljfUjI2M
I hope you enjoy the video.
William
William wrote:How about changing
Include
to
On including
please?
Still shorter than my original suggestion but removing the imperative of ordering someone to do it.On reflection, I wonder if ‘Include’ here isn’t really just shorthand for ‘To include’, rather than being an imperative. That aside, I see nothing wrong with changing ‘Include’ to ‘Including’.
Thank you.
William
For goodness sake, after means following.
(1) Following: in time - "Henry V was after Henry VI"
No.
William
William wrote:the rudeness accompanying the altered version
I believe the KISS acronym is too much of a cliché for most people to read it as rude.
William wrote:Your version uses an imperative verb and the abbreviated title could imply breaching someone's copyright.
I don’t think the imperative mood implies anything that wouldn’t be implied by the use of a gerund, but I take your point about the omission of the word “original” and I’ve edited the topic title accordingly.
Thank you. How about changing
Include
to
On including
please?
Still shorter than my original suggestion but removing the imperative of ordering someone to do it.
William
William wrote:jackneve wrote:I just realised, William's thoughts were of a can of apricots, so it's better that I chose another fruit - no plagiarism there!
Ah, not plagiarism as you acknowledged your poem as after my thoughts.
So, a poem by Jack after some thoughts by William
Maybe pastiche, though not quite.
Though is after only used for paintings and prints and the like?
William
Doesn’t “after” in this sense simply mean “in the style of”? (I find myself thinking of Gerard Hoffnung explaining that he was named Gerard after an uncle, “and Hoffnung after Gerard”.)
After reading your post I found the following.
https://www.lexico.com/definition/after
Use as a preposition, section 5 and 5.1 are not the same.
Wiliam
William:
On the possibility of producing a greetings card that displays the text of an original poem
William can't you KISS - keep it stupid simple?
A simpler title:
Include a poem in a greetings card.
Ah, but the rudeness accompanying the altered version has curtailed discussion by using offensiveness.
Your version uses an imperative verb and the abbreviated title could imply breaching someone's copyright.
I was most careful in the precision of my wording.
Your sub-editing has distorted the meaning of my suggested title.
Hopefully the administrator will use my suggested title rather than the edited lesser version.
William
I just realised, William's thoughts were of a can of apricots, so it's better that I chose another fruit - no plagiarism there!
Ah, not plagiarism as you acknowledged your poem as after my thoughts.
So, a poem by Jack after some thoughts by William
Maybe pastiche, though not quite.
Though is after only used for paintings and prints and the like?
William
A title - how about "Fuzzy Thinking", or "A Beach Too Far"
How about a competition, one week timelimit?
Memories of January nights
William
jackneve wrote:I had the notion that we could have a thread devoted to the literary arts - more the literature rather than the mechanism.
A good point well made, as they say! I’m afraid I’m all too prone to following a thread where it leads. Perhaps I should split the off-topic posts to a new thread.
Yes, a thread with a title such as
On the possibility of producing a greetings card that displays the text of an original poem
and in the first post you could provide a link to the thread that contains Jack's poem and say that the new thread is a spin-off thread that commenced by moving some posts that were originally made in the poem thread.
William
William wrote:I worked in pixels at 2171 pixels high by 1571 pixels wide at 300 dots per inch; that gives a bit of sideways play.
The size is, mixed units, 7 inches tall by 5 inches wide, with a 3 millimetre wide bleed area on each edge, though only three of them get chopped off.
If the document size is specified in inches, the standard bleed amount is 1/8 inch: the 3 mm quoted here is the metric equivalent. If you’re adding 1/4 inch to the overall dimensions, that’s 75 pixels at 300 ppi, so the finished size in pixels should be 2175 by 1575.
However, if you really need a bleed area, you might as well let the program handle the details for you! (Spoiler: You don’t need a bleed area for plain text on a white background.)
Well the document for a Papier card is not specified in inches but miliimetres, yet it is the equivalent of 7 inches by 5 inches. A 3 millimetre bleed area is advisable, yet the Papier system is quite tolerant of what is uploaded and will scale and crop if needed.
The Tesco oak effect frame for a 7 inches by 5 inches photograph that I bought about a year ago is no longer available (but there is a replacement type, though I have not bought any of them), had the aperture in the mount a bit smaller so that a bit of the picture goes behind the mount.
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/p … /308622501
The Papier card mentioned is said to have dimensions of
127mm x 177.8mm
However I tend to use the larger frames and have a white area behind the card, so the mount is more like a decorative border.
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/p … /308622478
William
I have noticed that your poem does not have a title.
It is an author's choice not to have a title for a poem.
But just wondering if you might like to consider adding a title.
[Moderator note: Remainder of post moved to new topic.]
In my opinion, that is very good.
William
What about literature topics?
Poetry etc.I have just posted a poem in response to a post by William, in the old Lounge, in the Video thread. It's the wrong place, like off topic, and with permission I'll post it here.
The poem is, in my opinion, really good.
So in which category, and in which thread within that category, would it be posted in this forum?
Posted as just forum text like this, or in an image produced using Serif software?
If the latter, which font would be a good choice?
Would the poem be the same regardless of the font or would the font nuance its meaning?
William
Well, the study of subjects such as French as a language is regarded as an "Arts" subject.
William
It has to happen.
I was driving along old sixty-six
And I stopped for a bite to eat
I'd been driving along for quite a while
I thought I'd rest my feet
But when I left the diner
What did I surely find
My semi gone to Los Angeles
Leaving me behind
William
Yes, that was good advice and got it going on Windows 8.1
However, if I remember correctly, when I installed it on my old computer, which ran on Windows 10, I think that it worked straightaway without any need to do that process.
It is not installed on this machine.
William
How specific can top level categories be please?
For example, which of these, if any, are too general, which of these, if any, are too specific.
----
Art
Art Galleries
Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Art of the Renaissance
The art of Leonardo da Vinci
Original art by forum members
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William
Transcript from
https://community.serif.com/forum/craft … il-gallery
On Thursday 10 August 2017, the last full day of activity in the daisytrail gallery, there was an event.
The event was a wacky races style race from Nottingham to the Mall in London, though by way of anywhere in the world.
I contributed a sequence of images, and I am now conserving them in this thread.
I started at around 9:00 am on Thursday and finished around 1:00 am on Friday morning, at various sessions on the computer during the day.
I did not have the story preplanned, it just developed as I went along, with only one or two future images in mind when producing a particular image.
I present the story here with asterisks separating pictures so that readers may muse on the story as it unfolds if they wish, perhaps trying to think what they would have as the next picture if they were trying to continue the writing of the story.
William Overington
Saturday 12 August 2017
A total of fifteen images.
I managed to include into the story another suggested story of a trip to the moon.
Most of the images are from CraftArtist digikits.
The three images of the Space Cruiser I made from a Space Cruiser 3d model from ImpactPlus 5. I changed the colour and made three images each by rotating the 3d model within the ImpactPlus 5 scene space and then exporting a 2d image from ImpactPlus 5 with a transparent background, the third image also including the image of the moon. ImpactPlus 5 dates from 2004, yet here it is in use in 2017 on a computer running Windows 10. I applied the images within CraftArtist 2.0 by using the Insert Photo From File... facility of the CraftArtist 2.0 program.
The font used is Goudita SF Bold at a 36 point size.
I really enjoyed producing the images and uploading them among other images that were being produced by other people who were also posting images of their own for the race.
A memorable experience.
William
I will try.
The tortoise from SteamPunk Emporium.
The signpost from CS London Landmarks, used three times, in one image with part of it blanked off.
The balloon from SteamPunk Adventures.
The Elizabeth Tower from CS London Landmarks.
The Eiffel Tower from CS Parisian Spring.
The grass from next to the Eiffel Tower is from CS Parisian Spring.
The flying machine from SteamPunk Adventures.
The medal from Sports Day 2012. That is intersting because that digikit was mentioned when the race was being suggested and it was a free digikit and I downloaded it as a result of it being mentioned.
The pyramids from SteamPunk Adventures.
The Dodo from SteamPunk Adventures.
Antarctica is from CS Manhattan Winter, where it is a rather smaller piece of ice with land beneath it.
I used the technique of starting with the first CraftArtist project and then commencing each subsequent image with a Save As... from the previous CraftArtist project, thus keeping the images available and also keeping the line of lettering in the same place. After each change of the text I centred the lettering object horizontally on the page.
For one caption I used two lines of text, so for the next image I copied the text object from the image before that so as to keep the vertical alignment of a single line caption the same as before.
William
Thank you.
I need to point out that although I suggested an event, the specific ideas for the format came from at least three other ideas from other people. Alas I forget exactly who suggested what.
One suggestion was a journey to the moon.
Another suggestion was for a race around London ending in The Mall, but where to start.
Another suggestion was that the race could start in Nottingham, yet could go anywhere in the world on the way.
Not to forget that I had the idea for an event at all from the fact that someone had suggested a virtual trip to the seaside some time previously and that had happened some time previously.
So what happened was very much from a mixture of ideas from a number of people.
Which was good as it was part of the happy friendly community of the daisytrail forum and gallery.
William
ImpactPlus is a wonderful program.
It is from nearly twenty years ago yet it still works well.
I had great problems trying to use it at first until I found that I could use it by putting numbers in the status panel and thus not needing to drag anything with a mouse pointer, after which I found that I could get it to work magnificently.
One works in a three-dimensional space to produce a scene, then one can rotate so as to display a view from a chosen viewpoint and then export a two-dimensional image as viewed from that viewpoint.
William
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